In short
- China has launched an AI initiative of $ 14 million to restore 100 classic martial arts films with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
- The Kung FU film Heritage project of the China Film Foundation will use AI to improve image quality, sound and production values while maintaining the original integrity of telling classics such as “Fist of Fury” and “Drunken Master”.
- The initiative represents China’s greatest effort to use AI for cultural soft power projection, which is strongly contrasted with Hollywood’s more cautious approach to AI integration in the midst of ethical care.
China has launched an artificial intelligence of $ 14 million, or AI, initiative to restore 100 classic martial arts films digitally, including fan favorites with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
The China Film Foundation announced the Kung Fu Film Heritage project on the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival, aimed at classic titles such as “fist of Fury”, “The Big Boss”, “Once Upon a Time in China” and “Drunken Master” for extensive AI-driven recovery.
The initiative was announced in addition to the premiere of “A Better Tomorrow: Cyber Border”, who called organizers the world’s first fully artificial intelligence-produced animation film, in a Variety report.
The original 1986 ““A better morning“Was the breakthrough of director John Woo who launched Hong Heroic Bloodic genre of Hong Kong and made Chow Yun-Fat an international star.
“This whole animated function was made by only 30 people,” producer Zhang Qing told Variety. “AI has collapsed the barrier between creativity and implementation. The production cycle has gone from years to months.”
The initiative represents China’s greatest effort to use AI for Soft Power projection, the transforming of film preservation during the reviving of martial arts cinema that first introduced Chinese culture to the Western public decades ago.
“From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan, from ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to ‘Wolf Warrior’, these films have shown the world the vitality and spirit of the Chinese people,” said China Film Foundation chairman Zhang Qilin. “They are our cinematic telephone cards for the world.”
“Ai is the brush, but creativity is the soul,” said Canxing Media Chair Tian Ming. “Classic Kung Fu films embody the spiritual backbone of China. We invite global partners to participate in this cultural and technological restart.”
Ten films receive priority treatment in the first phase, planned with broader international distribution pending market reception and approval of regulations in target areas.
The project reveals against grim contrasts in how different markets approach AI in entertainment.
While Hollywood is struggling with ethical worries – day as “The Brutalist” was confronted with recoil for the use of AI to improve the accents of actors, A24’s “Heretic” has worn an explicit “no generative AI” Disclaimer, and Robert Downey Jr. Has threatened legal steps on non -authorized digital replicas -China’s Regulatory Supports AI production in media production. “
Beijing’s 2023 Interim measures for the management of generative AI services and the new 2025 Labeling requirements for AI-generated content Provide structured supervision instead of limitations.
The rules of 2023 are exempt from internal company research of public supervision and requires transparency for consumer-oriented AI services.
In the coming 2025 regulations, both visible labels and embedded metadata will be required for all content generated by AI, with serious penalties for hiding AI-Ondsprong, but in particular avoid limiting the AI development itself.
Published by Stacy Elliott.
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